Order Only: Moony and Bea
Nov. 29th, 2012 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_siriusWe spent a quiet day today and put together a picnic tea party in the sitting room, with Moony ensconced on the sofa and Bea happily climbing all over him to celebrate that she's 18 months old now (and that in itself is somewhat unbelievable!). But taking a lazy day like this seems to lead to thinking about all the balls we currently have in the air.
Kingsley, don't take our silence here as disapproval of the decision to call an end to the Players. Today aside, it's usually fairly busy round here. But your choice is a brave thing in its way and as Frank says, it's not the end, just a new chapter.
Arthur: Well done, mate, on Terry's file. It's good to know it can be done, particularly if we work with Beth on more smuggling of people as well as goods.
Bill, happy birthday! Believe it or not it does get more fun as you go along (I never thought it would do, either).
Molly, any luck with Mrs Perks? It's only three weeks now until the solstice so if we're going to get her a place on the boat we need to get moving.
Minerva: The Book? How many do we have adding up?
Alice, I've been thinking about the list of topics you mentioned from the meeting at Moddey when our people came back from Ireland. And we've been chatting about them, off and on, but with no firm conclusions. I do think that our success has to lie on these multiple trajectories, even if it keeps us all fragmented. We have to be able to keep moving forward on a number of fronts, and not put all our ashwinder eggs in one fire - in case something goes wrong, like in Ireland.
Still thinking about what that means.
Kingsley, don't take our silence here as disapproval of the decision to call an end to the Players. Today aside, it's usually fairly busy round here. But your choice is a brave thing in its way and as Frank says, it's not the end, just a new chapter.
Arthur: Well done, mate, on Terry's file. It's good to know it can be done, particularly if we work with Beth on more smuggling of people as well as goods.
Bill, happy birthday! Believe it or not it does get more fun as you go along (I never thought it would do, either).
Molly, any luck with Mrs Perks? It's only three weeks now until the solstice so if we're going to get her a place on the boat we need to get moving.
Minerva: The Book? How many do we have adding up?
Alice, I've been thinking about the list of topics you mentioned from the meeting at Moddey when our people came back from Ireland. And we've been chatting about them, off and on, but with no firm conclusions. I do think that our success has to lie on these multiple trajectories, even if it keeps us all fragmented. We have to be able to keep moving forward on a number of fronts, and not put all our ashwinder eggs in one fire - in case something goes wrong, like in Ireland.
Still thinking about what that means.
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Date: 2012-11-30 04:29 am (UTC)Alice, I'm thinking I'll come tomorrow after I've slept a bit, and stay the weekend if that's all right. We haven't decided yet, but I think Bea may come with me.
One of the things we've been discussing is whether it's any use my staying on at the Ministry when I've not turned up anything useful there in all this time. Everyone's being so cautious there these days, expecting someone will turn them in for putting a toe over the line if they ever do, even if it's an accident, so it's not as if people are leaving their correspondence or their planners on their desks or throwing their notes for next Tuesday's insurrection in the rubbish for me to find. It just seems as if I'm wasting time I could be spending in the camps, doing the real work we need to be about- only, I don't know, it may be riskier to give notice than to stay on. I've heard they investigate anyone who leaves a job there now, as if you might go off with state secrets and turn them over to some bloke who'd write essays in the journals and call them grim truths! Or summat. I'm not doing any more than thinking about it. For now, at least.
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Date: 2012-11-30 04:52 am (UTC)And, you know, you've got a good excuse for leaving, what with Miss Bea on hand and all. You could have a month or two of "problems" with childcare, and then regretfully have to resign to take more care of your family, yeah?
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Date: 2012-11-30 05:47 am (UTC)Some days all I can think about is clearing out of there. But it still seems as if having someone sifting through the rubbish over there is a good idea. Maybe I just haven't been looking closely enough. I wonder sometimes whether I've missed loads of bits and bobs we could've used if I'd just been clever enough or careful enough to have caught them.
I've been thinking along the same lines as you're suggesting, only if I complain about my childminder, we're likely to have the Muggleborn placement people out, questioning El and poking into our business again. So. I've actually been thinking I might just tell them that now Bea's a year and a half, we've decided it's time to try for a second baby and that if I'm to be a good mum, I'll need to be staying home from here on.
I haven't run that idea by Remus or Sirius yet, though. And I'm not sure how they'd either of them feel about it.
Not that we'd actually try for another baby. Not the three of us, anyway.
And I don't really think I'd be interested in finding someone else to help me along that way, but I have wondered sometimes if it's really fair to Bea to leave her an only child. And if I'm honest, I'd have to admit I sometimes think that I might like to have another. I mean, I was an only, and it would have been nice to have had sisters or brothers. Especially after Mum and Dad were gone.
I don't know. For now it's just something to maybe tell the Ministry so they don't think too much about why I'm leaving if I do decide to go.
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Date: 2012-11-30 06:22 am (UTC)As for the rest of it --
Look. Don't take this the wrong way, yeah? 'Cause I don't mean it as anything other than face value or anything.
But if you do decide you want another, you could come talk to me about it.
I'm pretty sure there are spells and such, so this isn't me trying to get into your knickers (not that they aren't lovely knickers, I'm sure, but somehow I think we've both got plenty going on in our lives right now). But you're a fabulous mum, and for all that my brothers (and sister) drove me spare when I was younger, I wouldn't trade them for the world. I wouldn't tell anyone, either, not if you didn't want.
Probably another stupid suggestion (and you could write to Dierdre and tell her to hit me upside the head if you want, she likely wouldn't even ask why even though she doesn't know you) and I know it's not that easy -- loads of complications and a nest of problems that'd need to be solved and questions to settle first.
But if you wanted, really wanted, I'd help.
And don't you dare suggest you aren't clever. I know damn well who the smartest witch in our year was, and it sure as blazes wasn't Susan Dunstan.
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Date: 2012-11-30 02:01 pm (UTC)I'll give that a good thinking over. Thank you.
How are you, anywiz? Still in the busy, dangerous season, then? Is this season better or worse for getting up each others' noses out there in your tight little group? Sounds as if you live pretty much ears to elbows up there. Is it cozier when the temperature falls and the dragons hot up? Or more claustrophobic?
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Date: 2012-11-30 11:51 pm (UTC)Offer's open for as long as you'd like, too. I'm not likely to trip and fall into a relationship with someone who wouldn't understand anytime soon, especially since anybody who wouldn't understand me wanting to help out a friend is someone I probably wouldn't be interested in in the first place! So, you know. Take your time. Won't be offended if you say 'not interested', either, or just never bring it up again.
Anywiz.
Things have calmed down a bit by now -- most of the breeds that hibernate are starting to settle in, so it's a little less hectic. (Or will be once the solstice passes and whatever they're doing to the dragons for the wards eases off and the poor darlings can calm down again.) I actually like the winter months here. We're all on top of each other, in barracks or in the Hall, and it does get a bit claustrophobic from time to time, but there's always "I have to go fly out to the caves and check the eggs haven't got too cold" as an excuse, and everybody knows that means "if I don't get out of here in the next five minutes, somebody's going to get transfigured into a carrot and dropped in the soup".
But everybody pulls out their crafts and their musical instruments -- and I did ask Greg to teach me his woodcarving charms this winter after all! -- and we have a pretty good time of it. And winter does usually mean we can have more time off and away, so I should be able to help out the Order more until spring -- although I've had to promise a bunch of favours to people to get three days free over Christmas.
Hope I'll get to see you and Miss Bea over the hols.
Re: Private Message to Charlie
Date: 2012-12-01 03:00 am (UTC)You're welcome to stay with us, too, if you'd like. The old place has got guest rooms going to waste.
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Date: 2012-11-30 08:05 pm (UTC)I'd say your assessment is spot on -- you're not as useful there as you could be, and I think if you'd rather direct more energies to network building and training, that would be energy well spent.
We'll look forward to your coming up this weekend, and Bea too. Kevin just adores her, and last time she was here, she was quite a hit at the nursery showing off her different hair colours.
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Date: 2012-11-30 03:03 pm (UTC)Maybe a different word other than rebellion. That one's likely to conjure up images of being sunk into the sea.
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Date: 2012-11-30 08:02 pm (UTC)I'd call it a return to tradition, but it's our traditions that have made this reality so possible. And it can't be righting a wrong if people don't see it as wrong in the first place.
Perhaps what we're looking for is a change of heart?
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Date: 2012-11-30 11:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-30 05:22 pm (UTC)What she wants is to get away from Leo, but without endangering her daughter's position in any way. And she doesn't want to leave the Protectorate, not really, and again, that's because of her daughter. It would break her heart to give up any hope of ever seeing Sally-Anne again.
She's not sure she believes that we could do a good enough job of faking her death, although I assured her we could. She is anxious that whatever we do that she be allowed to keep some surreptitious channel of communication with her daughter.
I wonder, would she be a good candidate for Sherwood? Frankly, she's already used to living quite roughly--their level of poverty is really grim--and I daresay she would consider it an improvement to get away from Leo, especially his drinking.
The bottom line is, she's probably not the best candidare to be a Solstice escapee, but I do think we should try to get her out of there. Could we ask Davidson if he could take her? She's willing to work, and she does have a wand.
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Date: 2012-11-30 05:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-30 05:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-30 05:37 pm (UTC)Mac, what do you think? You've spent enough time with Davidson's lot.
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Date: 2012-11-30 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-01 02:38 am (UTC)And it's not that no one's been asking her to have a look. I think I shall use that as tonight's excuse to pay Minerva a visit. I promise not to leave her until we've seen what's there.
Unless, of course, I find her cloistered with Death Eaters or Governors or those who are both.
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Date: 2012-12-01 02:50 am (UTC)(As to the company, I understand that Auri is off for her research chat with Dolohov tonight. Which means at least one of the possibilities otherwise occupied. Though, curse it, that means other worries.)
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Date: 2012-12-01 03:19 am (UTC)Perhaps we could retreat to your rooms after for conversation--and a restorative cup if this does not go better than I fear.
Re: Private Message to Pomona
Date: 2012-12-01 03:26 am (UTC)And yes, we can certainly retreat back to my rooms after. Either way.